collectivist

Prioritizes community over self

Collectivist describes someone who prioritizes group welfare over individual interests, or systems organized around that principle: a collectivist society, collectivist economic policies.

As a noun, a collectivist advocates for shared ownership or communal decision-making.

The term appears in political and economic discussions, often contrasted with individualist: She dismissed his collectivist leanings as naive.

ideology

Marxism

Class-based revolutionary philosophy

Leninism · communalism · communitarianism · nationalization · proletariat · common-good · Bolshevism · Trotskyism · soviet

communal

commune

Shared-living community

commonality · fellowship · congregation · assembly · togetherness · interdependence · in-group · belonging · communitarian · village

cooperative

teamwork

Joint effort toward shared aim

alliance · consortium · federation · coalition · union · solidarity · coordination · guild · network · reciprocity

societal

conformity

Adherence to norms

obedience · tradition · norms · customs · clan · tribe · caste · kinship · face-saving · anthropology

egalitarian

equity

Impartial treatment or ownership value

redistribution · leveling · democratization · inclusivity · classless · anti-hierarchy · non-hierarchical · horizontal · participatory · impartiality

Categories
Opposites
individual vs. group primacy

collectivistindividualist

One who values autonomy

individualistic · libertarian · atomistic · self-reliant · egoist

economic organization

collectivistcapitalist

Private ownership supporter

capitalistic · free-market · laissez-faire · entrepreneurial · neoliberal

political ideology spectrum

collectivistlibertarian

Anti-statist political adherent

anarcho-capitalist · classical liberal · objectivist · voluntaryist · Milton Friedman

Family

collectivism, collectivists, collectivization, collectivize, collectivized, collectivizing

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